Lifting the cover on modern myths

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Arsenal’s passing style is not the type espoused by Mourinho but can be effective neverthelessEDDIE KEOGHREUTERS

Chris Anderson and David Sally

Last updated at 12:00AM, May 13 2013

It is the book that could change the game for ever.

Football has long been waiting its Moneyball moment. Over the course of
the past decade, the sport has been deluged with numbers. Clubs have spent
millions establishing their own analysis departments and companies such as
Opta and Prozone have gathered billions of data points, telling us how far
players run, how many times they pass — anything and everything, in the hope
of unlocking the game’s secrets, of finding a recipe for winning.

The problem is that nobody quite knows how to make sense of that avalanche of
information. Does